I read an article recently about learning to play the guitar. In it ex-Smiths guitarist and songwriter, Johnny Marr, said “If you’ve got a mate who’s better, play with them as much as you can, because you learn more in playing with someone else in half an hour than you do playing guitar on your […]
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Specialist CoursesWelcome to the June 2015 news review from Verner Wheelock The weather has finally taken a turn for the better and we are now enjoying some real summer weather here in Skipton. The gardens here are in full bloom and we are busy providing lots of courses here at Broughton Hall, and in-house before everyone
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Auditing training Monthly UpdatesMeat, McLibel and our first award By the mid-1990s, Verner Wheelock Associates had earned a reputation for being food safety experts. In amongst arranging various training courses, Verner was writing a regular column on food and food safety for Bradford’s Telegraph & Argus newspaper. His background in nutrition and food policy also meant that he
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsLet’s start at the very beginning – the early 1990s The years leading up to the formation of Verner Wheelock Associates in 1990 were interesting ones in terms of the understanding of food safety – or should we say lack of it. One of the most notable was an outbreak of food poisoning at Stanley
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsYou could be forgiven for thinking that ‘umami’ is the name of a hurricane or word concocted by comic Vic Reeves for use on his TV show Shooting Stars. That simply isn’t true. What is true, though, is that ‘umami’ is an invented word, created by Dr Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University in 1908.
